Rakad Salem

Rakad Salem (1944-) was the Secretary-General of the Arab Liberation Front from 1995.

Biography
Rakad Salem was born in 1944 in an Arab village near Acre, Mandatory Palestine, but in 1948 Salem and his family were evicted when their village was destroyed by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Salem joined the Arab Liberation Front, a Ba'athist Palestinian militant group funded by Ba'athist Iraq, and he led its military wing during the Lebanese Civil War while he was living in Lebanon. Later, he acquired Iraqi citizenship, and he moved to Bir Zeit in the West Bank of Palestine, where he became the editor of the ALF monthly magazine Sawt al-Jamahir. In 2001, he was arrested by Israel for transferring Iraqi money to the families of Second Intifada suicide bombers.